Incidents in the life of a slave girl
By: Linda Brent ; edited by L. Maria Child ; new introduction and notes by Walter Teller.
Contributors: Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880.
Series: A Harvest/HBJ book
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1983
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Jacobs, Harriet A. 1813-1897; Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions; Slaves -- United States -- Biography
Description: An authentic autobiographical account of slave life in the South from the 1820s to the 1840s. To escape sexual exploitation by her master, Brent ran away and hid in an attic crawl space that became her home for seven years of unbelievable physical hardship.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. (A Harvest book ; HB245)